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Re: Default visual focus ring in Safari and other browsers

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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Nov 8, 2018 10:12AM

hey Poornima,

It's really important for sighted keyboard users to have eye-catching
focus styles. The default visual focus ring can be better than nothing,
but not necessarily! What's really good is to use css to style the focus
so that it works with the styles of the page.

--
Sandy
sandyfeldman.com



On 2018-11-08 11:51 AM, Subramanian, Poornima (PCL) wrote:
> Hi Everyone, > > I have a question re. the 'default visual focus ring in browsers'.
> Each browser varies in showing the focus ring, and there is a >
technique in WCAG that recommends to use the default focus ring on >
browsers. > > However on the website that I am testing fails on the
visual focus > ring on specific browsers e.g. in Safari, the focus ring
shows like > 'dull/faint blue shadow box' which is hard to see on both
white and > dark backgrounds. > > Any thoughts on the criticality of
this issue, and what is the best > way to address this? > > Thanks! > >
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